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This man is about to launch himself in his homemade rocket to prove the Earth is flat
Washington Post ^ | 11/21/17 | Avi Selk

Posted on 11/21/2017 1:54:10 PM PST by Blue House Sue

Seeking to prove that a conspiracy of astronauts fabricated the shape of the Earth, a California man intends to launch himself 1,800 feet high on Saturday in a rocket he built from scrap metal.

Assuming the 500-mph, mile-long flight through the Mojave Desert does not kill him, Mike Hughes told the Associated Press, his journey into the atmosflat will mark the first phase of his ambitious flat-Earth space program.

Hughes’s ultimate goal is a subsequent launch that puts him miles above the Earth, where the 61-year-old limousine driver hopes to photograph proof of the disc we all live on.

“It’ll shut the door on this ball earth,” Hughes said in a fundraising interview with a flat-Earth group for Saturday’s flight. Theories discussed during the interview included NASA being controlled by round-Earth Freemasons and Elon Musk making fake rockets from blimps.

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...


TOPICS: Conspiracy
KEYWORDS: australia; battlestarmoronica; california; flatearth; flatearther; flatearthliars; flatearthmorons; madmikehughes; mentalillness; mikehughes
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To: Blue House Sue
Maybe Felix Baumgartner could offer him a ride


141 posted on 11/21/2017 4:34:03 PM PST by COBOL2Java (John McCain treats GOP voters like he treated his first wife)
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To: Blue House Sue

Hold muh Four Loko Gold...


142 posted on 11/21/2017 4:39:54 PM PST by montag813
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To: DocRock

Sasquatch! He’s all time ‘Hide and Seek’ Champion of the World! (flat, or otherwise). Deserves a platinum medal.


143 posted on 11/21/2017 4:50:02 PM PST by TotusTuus
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To: Blue House Sue

144 posted on 11/21/2017 4:56:28 PM PST by Sirius Lee (In God We Trust, In Trump We Fix America)
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To: 50mm; Larry Lucido; Salamander; JoeProBono

I just read some of the other posts on this thread which in turn caused me to look up a couple of other cases.

There are at least two people who have exceeded 15,000 feet altitude by strapping helium balloons to their lawn chairs.

Hmmmmm... Let’s see now...

Homemade rocket?

Lawn chair with balloons?

I’ll take Lawn Chair for the win Alex!


145 posted on 11/21/2017 5:06:37 PM PST by shibumi (Cover it with gas and set it on fire.)
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To: DocRock

“If the Earth was flat, cats would have already knocked everything over the edge.’

Winner!


146 posted on 11/21/2017 5:11:17 PM PST by CodeToad (CWII is coming. Arm Up! They Are!)
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To: AngelesCrestHighway
"Larry hiked into the forest and shot himself on October 6, 1993. He died at the age of 44. "

That's pretty sad for an innovator/folk hero..

147 posted on 11/21/2017 6:18:11 PM PST by Paladin2 (No spelchk nor wrong word auto substition on mobile dev. Please be intelligent and deal with it....)
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To: Made In The USA

Why not? Credit Default Swaps seem to work out fine for Wall Street.


148 posted on 11/21/2017 6:24:05 PM PST by Paladin2 (No spelchk nor wrong word auto substition on mobile dev. Please be intelligent and deal with it....)
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To: shibumi
As chance would have it, I was listening to Led Zeppelin while driving home from work and just before I read this thread. Rocket man may soon find, as did Icarus, that it is inadvisable to test the gods.


149 posted on 11/21/2017 6:36:14 PM PST by 50mm (.. / -.. .. -.. / - .... .. ... / ..-. --- .-. / -. --- / .-. . .- ... --- -. .-.-.-)
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To: NorthMountain; P-Marlowe

Not to be confused with hollow earthers.


150 posted on 11/21/2017 7:15:44 PM PST by Gamecock (God clothes us with righteousness when he justifies us! ~ Martin Luther)
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To: Gamecock
Not to be confused with hollow earthers.

No ... that's an entirely different collection of nutburgers.


151 posted on 11/21/2017 7:25:25 PM PST by NorthMountain (... the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: shibumi; 50mm

I say let ‘er rip.


152 posted on 11/21/2017 7:34:58 PM PST by Salamander (And Yet, Ezekiel Smiles...)
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To: shibumi; 50mm
Pffffft.

Pikers.


153 posted on 11/21/2017 7:37:10 PM PST by Salamander (And Yet, Ezekiel Smiles...)
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To: Gamecock; shibumi; 50mm
"For the world is hollow and I have touched the sky...


154 posted on 11/21/2017 7:38:43 PM PST by Salamander (And Yet, Ezekiel Smiles...)
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To: shibumi; 50mm; Larry Lucido; JoeProBono
So this is what happened?


155 posted on 11/21/2017 7:40:43 PM PST by Salamander (And Yet, Ezekiel Smiles...)
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To: Salamander

The author of that graphic is in possession neither of the facts nor of his faculties.


156 posted on 11/21/2017 7:45:36 PM PST by NorthMountain (... the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: Salamander; shibumi

It’s now official, this thread has potential.


157 posted on 11/21/2017 7:47:38 PM PST by 50mm (.. / -.. .. -.. / - .... .. ... / ..-. --- .-. / -. --- / .-. . .- ... --- -. .-.-.-)
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To: 50mm

Potential for what?

Running headlong into wholesale madness?

;)


158 posted on 11/21/2017 7:54:37 PM PST by Salamander (And Yet, Ezekiel Smiles...)
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To: NorthMountain

The Batsh*t Brigade.

They have the coolest uniforms.


159 posted on 11/21/2017 7:56:00 PM PST by Salamander (And Yet, Ezekiel Smiles...)
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To: rightwingcrazy

I’ve seen a few of those youtubes with the balloons and cameras and a GPS unit to track it with once it lands/falls back to earth. Pretty cool (and relatively cheap) stuff.


160 posted on 11/21/2017 7:59:03 PM PST by 21twelve (http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2185147/posts FDR's New Deal = obama)
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